Hamiltonian reduction of diffeomorphism-invariant field theories

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/14/2/003MaRDI QIDQ3130063zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jens Hoppe, T. S. Ratiu

Publication date 4 September 1997

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9612036

zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian reductiondiffeomorphism-invariant field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Classical field theories (70Sxx)

Abstract: For a variety of diffeomorphism-invariant field theories describing hypersurface motions (such as relativistic M-branes in space-time dimension M+2) we perform a Hamiltonian reduction ``at level 0, showing that a simple algebraic function of the normal velocity is canonically conjugate to the shape Sigma of the hypersurface. The Hamiltonian dependence on Sigma is solely via the domain of integration, raising hope for a consistent, reparametrisation-invariant quantization.

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